St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-31

an immense amount of reformation in this
city which, Notwithstanding its name is far
from being SANITY City.
Dr.. S. G. Smith, pastor of the First NJ. E.
church, made the next address:
1t should be understood that this bill
recommends the low water mark of the senti-
ment of the temperance people, and when [
speak of the low water mark / would remind
the gentlemen who are professional politi-
clans that the tide is constantly rising. What
is high license? And what would be a fair
tax upon this traffic? These are the questions
We are asked. l answer, certainly not less
than the expenses it creates. If the saloons
were taxed upon this basis, there would not
be one running inside of six months. But
there is even greater danger before
which tremble. Speakers here have more
than limited ait bribery. and il has almost
been received as a thing to joke about. We
can stand il to have more whisky than we
now have, but we cannot survive the fact
that our legislature can be bought and sold
l am told, on what believe to be reputa BILE
authority, that $4,000 has been levied in the
city of Minneapolis upon the liquor side. The
saloon keepers OF Saltwater have also been
levied upon in this great emergency, and not
alone the saloons of this city, but the cigar
firms as well, have been taxed and threatened
with boycott if they did not pay. Why this
money? Why $4,000 because high license is
before the legislature? 1t simply means that
IL Is INC Idltu I'll tuS SdlOOu KEEPERS ludC ID1S
legislature can be bought. / do not believe
that it is so. In the legislature, and in both
houses, there are some honest men, and some
of the most warm hearted temperance men
the state affords.
At the close Of DR.. Smiths speech the
following resolutions were presented by
DR.. Nj. MEG. Dana, of the Plymouth Con-
gregational church, and adopted by rising
vote as the sense of the meeting;
D. oiri1o OF M
mass meeting assembled at the opera house
Jan. 80, 1887:
/. That we respectfully call upon our rep
resentatives in this legislature now in session,
to redeem the pledge made in the plat form
adopted by the Republican convention held
in September last, by passing the high license
bill now before both houses, recommended
by the joint committee, which bill we deem
the only fair expression Of what was prom
ised at that time.
2. We deuounce as dangerous to all honest
and honorable government the attempt to de-
feat the popular will by such arts and arti-
fees as are now being used by the representa-
tives of the liquor traffic. Moreover, the
home, whose interests are so sacred, and
on whose sanctity our perpetuity as a nation
depends, is openly assailed by the saloons
which this legislature was elected to curtail
and make amenable to the laws of the state,
and regardful of those rights of hum anity
now utterly ignored.
3. We call upon all friends of practi-
cal temperance in our state to make their
influence felt in favor of the pending bill,
and to urge in every honorable way their
representatives to resist every compromise
by which this high license measure may be
jeopardized, and to act promptly and unit
edly in passing the same, by which the faith
of the party's public promises made will be
redeemed and Minnesota liberated from the
longer dominance of the ring which is now
the organized propagandist of the rum
traffic and the conspicuous opponent OF the
legislation now proposed.
The last speaker was Hon. Alden j.
Blethen, of the Minneapolis Tribune. He
said;
One thousand dollars is not high license for
ST. Paul and Minneapolis. 1t is no more than
it should be. and $500 for all other towns out
side of Minneapolis is certainly low enough.
Give every town and village local option, and
if $500 will prevent it. in Gods name let it
prevent. l do not, however, believe there is
member of the legislature OF Minnesota
that can be bought. If there be, then GER
tainly he cannot have read in the newspapers
the telegraphic dispatches from New York
city. New York city has her Doodle alder
men-that is. she did have tnem-Sing Sing
has part of them now, and there will be
place found for Doodle Legislators of Mime
sofa
The audience cried for ''Donnelly," but
the learned sage was not present. The
meeting broke up with the singing OF
America" and benediction by Dr.. Dana.